For the past 100 years, the annual Best American Short Stories anthologies have sought to demonstrate what can be accomplished in that pint of prose we call a short story. The implicit question of ...

(Scribner, $27) 100 YEARS OF THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor. How to boil down a century of great writing to just 40 stories?

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby," marks 100 years in publication Thursday -- and for nearly as long, fans of the novel have been working to bring the story to the ...

I’ve been reading the Best American series. To be exact, I’ve been reading it for 35 years, since high school, when I found a copy of the “Best American Short Stories” 1986 (edited by ...

In our series “100 Years of Racism in U.S. Policing,” we take a critical look at post-riot policing commissions over the last 100 years in four short films.

The Best American Short Stories 2022 (Mariner 2022), selected and edited by fiction writer Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli, 2003), presents as strong a selection of writing as the ...

The guest editor of this year’s “Best American Short Stories” collection is Salman Rushdie, the first writer who isn’t American or Canadian to select the 20 stories to be featured in the ...

Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor present some of the best writers and their stories in this 100-year history of the “Best American Short Stories” series.

'100 Years of the Best American Short Stories' is loaded with recent writers, and is a chance to consider the anthology's effects.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is honoring the 100th birthday of its short fiction compilation Best American Short Stories with a special anniversary edition, edited by Lorrie Moore, called '100 Years ...